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1. con-sĕro, sēvi, sĭtum or sătum, 3, v. a. (perf. conseruerit, Col. 3, 4, 2; Aur. Vict. Epit. 37, 3; Dig. 6, 1, 38; v. 1. sero).

  1. I. To sow or plant with something (class.).
    1. A. Lit.: agros, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Verg. E. 1, 73; Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Dig. 7, 1, 9, § 6; cf.: ager diligenter consitus, Cic. Sen. 17, 59: ager arbustis consitus, Sall. J. 53, 1; and: consitus an incultus (locus), Quint. 5, 10, 37: Ismara Baccho (i. e. vino), Verg. G. 2, 38: vineam malleolo, Col. 5, 5, 6: arva frumento, Curt. 7, 4, 26.
      Absol.: in alieno fundo, Dig. 6, 1, 38: in alienum fundum, ib. 41, 1, 9.
      1. 2. Transf.: arva mūliebria (Venus), Lucr. 4, 1107; cf. Sol. 9 fin.
        Hence, conserentes dii, who preside over generation, Arn. 5, 169.
    2. B. Transf., of columns, to plant, set: aera (rostra) columnis consita, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 49.
    3. C. Trop.: (sol) lumine conserit arva, strews, fills, Lucr. 2, 211: consitus sum Senectute, * Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 4: caeca mentem caligine Theseus consitus, * Cat. 64, 208.
  2. II. To sow, plant: olivetum, Varr. R. R. 1, 24: hoc genus oleae, Cato, R. R. 6, 1: arborem, Liv. 10, 24, 5; Curt. 6, 5, 14; 7, 2, 22: zizyphum, Pall. Apr. 4: palmas, id. Oct. 12: (vitem) Narbonicam, Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 43; Cato ap. Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 46.
    1. B. Transf. (cf. I. B. supra): extra vallum stili caeci, mirabilem in modum consiti, set, Auct. B. Afr. 31.

2. con-sĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3 (perf. consevisti, Fronto, Ep. ad Ver. 8), v. a., to connect, entwine, tie, join, fit, bind into a whole (syn.: conecto, conjungo, contexo, etc.; class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in the signif. II. B., and in the histt.).

  1. I. In gen.
    1. A. Lit.
          1. (α) With acc. with or without abl.: lorica conserta hamis auroque, Verg. A. 3, 467; cf.: tegumen spinis, id. ib. 3, 594 (illigatum spinis, Serv.); cf. Tac. G. 17: monile margaritis gemmisque, * Suet. Galb. 18: vincula, quīs conserta erant vehicula, Curt. 9, 1, 17; cf.: conserta navigia, entangled, id. 4, 3, 18: scutis super capita consertis, overlapping, id. 5, 3, 23: rudis arbor conseritur (for navigating), Luc. 3, 512; cf. id. 4, 136.
          2. (β) With acc. and dat.: alium (truncum) alii quasi nexu conserunt, Curt. 6, 5, 15.
    2. B. Trop.: quid juvat nocti conseruisse diem? Ov. Am. 3, 6, 10: exodia conserta fabellis Atellanis, Liv. 7, 2, 11; v. exodium: virtutes consertae et inter se cohaerentes, Sen. Ep. 90, 3: ita ordo rerum tribus momentis consertus est, * Quint. 5, 10, 71: sermonem, to interchange words, converse, Curt. 8, 12, 5; Fronto l. l.
  2. II. In partic.
    1. A. To join, connect, unite together: teneros sinus, Tib. 1, 8, 36: femur femori, id. 1, 8, 26; cf.: latus lateri, Ov. H. 2, 58.
    2. B. Esp., to unite in hostility, for contest, to bring together; so most freq. manum or manus, to engage in close combat, to join hand to hand, to join battle: signa contulit, manum conseruit, magnas copias hostium fudit, Cic. Mur. 9, 20; so Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3; Sall. J. 50, 4; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Ages. 3, 6; Liv. 21, 41, 4 al.: manum cum hoste, Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.; Cic. Att. 7, 20, 1; Nep. Hann. 4, 2: manus inter se, Sall. H. 1, 41, 19 Dietsch; Liv. 7, 40, 14; Ov. H. 12, 100: manus cum imparibus, Liv. 6, 12, 8: cum hoste manus, id. 21, 39, 3: consertis deinde manibus, id. 1, 25, 5: dextras, Stat. S. 1, 6, 60: pugnam, Liv. 21, 50, 1; cf. id. 21, 8, 7; Tac. A. 2, 10: pugnam inter se, Liv. 32, 10, 8: pugnam seni, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 43: proelia, Verg. A. 2, 398; Liv. 5, 36, 5; Curt. 8, 13, 12: certamen, Liv. 35, 4, 2: bella, Val. Fl. 3, 31: bella bellis, Luc. 2, 442: acies, Sil. 1, 339; cf.: conserta acies, hand-to-hand fighting, Tac. A. 6, 35.
      Mid.: navis conseritur, enters the fight, Liv. 21, 50, 3: duo acerrimā pugnā conserti exercitus, Val. Max. 3, 2, 1.
      Rarely absol.: levis armatura ab lateribus cum levi armaturā, Liv. 44, 4, 6.
      1. 2. Trop.: haud ignotas belli artes inter se conserebant, Liv. 21, 1, 2.
      2. 3. Transf., of judicial controversy: manum in jure or ex jure conserere, to make a joint seizure (this was done by the litigant parties laying hands at the same time upon the thing in dispute, each one claiming it as his own): si qui in jure manum conserunt, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 10, 7: non ex jure manum consertum sed mage ferro rem repetunt, Enn. ib. § 4 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.); cf. also Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll., and Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2: ibi ego te ex jure manum consertum voco, etc., I summon you in an action for possession, etc., a judic. formula in Cic. Mur. 12, 26; id. de Or. 1, 10, 41.
        Hence, * con-sertē, adv., from consertus, a, um (acc. to I. A.), not used as P. a., as if bound or fastened together, in connection: omnia necesse est conligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri, Cic. Fat. 14, 32.